Hosea 6:4-6

Tree of Life Version

⁴ “O Ephraim, what shall I do for you?
O Judah, what will I do for you?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
    or like dew rising early, vanishing.
⁵ Therefore I cut them down by the prophets.
I slew them by the words of My mouth.
Now the judgments pronounced against you:
    light will go forth.
⁶ For I delight in loyalty^[a] and not sacrifice,
knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.